ok, so when a company in China rips something off, the whole country gets blamed. When a company in the U.S. rips something off, only the company is blamed. Is there something wrong here? screw the people who ripped it off but you idiots need to stop blaming every thing that a group does on the whole country. otherwise, a lot of other countries should have crap reputations just like China.

As a Chinese,I want to say…
This is not the fault of the Chinese people.
This is the Chinese government’s fault.
We can make our own animation,but we are controlled by Chinese government[usually].
so,I want to say sorry to the people whose works are copied.
Excuse us!This is not the result we want.
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My English is not very good.Thanks Google translation.

I’m well aware it’s the government’s fault, it’s really not like the people have too much of a choice in this manner that much.. Sure there are exceptions to these rules but yeah, I have faith that not all chinese people are like this or support this sorta thing but hey, atleast it’s anime.. XP

OH btw some of u think that the Chinese have never been inventive BUT, heres some tidbit 4 u, many items noodles, ice cream, canon, long rifle, fireworks, CHOPSTICKS, silk, coins…etc, were all invented by, u guessed it, CHINA. FUCK we invented enough of yer daily shit that we no longer need to fucking create. hell we had an established empire before the greeks and roman erected there first fucking town. we had sailed most of the ocean whilst any of u european shits thought the world was a FUCKING SHEET OF PAPER. so font dis china, we can and will do what ever we fucking want u retarded fags!

Apparently, the illustrator for this commercial is a part-time doujin artist called Zixia (ç´«å¤� sounds feminine, so I’m gonna use “her”), who she claims was hired/coerced by the Party bigwigs for her skills.

“I didn’t want to do this at first… I just wanted to diligently do my proper work. I have absolutely no idea where those bigwigs learned of my drawings, who then just went and asked me to do this… I pretended that I only know how to do simple drawings and couldn’t do Flash… They insisted on me doing this, so I had no choice but to give them these sketches for post production. If I told them I can do Flash, then they’ll probably ask me to do the animation and voices as well… In such an industry, you gotta keep a low profile. Even if you’re talented, you have to pretend you aren’t, or you’ll end up being worked to death. “

Yes, China does rip off a lot of things. But who exactly is doing so? Would the average Chinese citizen even know about Lucky Star – aside from the typical otaku?

Whenever you hear about these stories in China – be it stolen copyright material, shoddy construction work, or toxic materials in toys, 19 out of 20 times it’s the decision of either a single individual or a small group of people. While not much can be done about foreign copyright, those who fall into the latter categories get executed if they’re caught (and most flee to Canada or the US for just this reason).

Regardless, it’s just ignorant to criticize an entire population for the acts of a few, especially when the population is as big as China’s.

Will watching it also cause the fake protein crystals to form in our livers and kidneys and will we get lead and chromium poisoning as well from viewing it? Do we need to wear gas masks to be safe watching videos from China?

10:39 – We are so sorry for doing such a thing, as a representitive of entire China, I apologize. I will personally hunt down the person in charge of such foolishness and rape his son, eat his dog (I assume it’s a “he” because we kill new born daughters) and burn his house.

I believe it is all Microsoft’s fault. In the Chinese version “Copy” and “Paste” menu entries were inadvertently replaced with characters that can mean “create original content” thus confusing the Chinese people’s profound moral sensibilities.

The Chinese unfortunately cannot afford Macs which do not have this issue.

They have never been able to make their Linux machines do anything useful.

This guy, “Chamba” did really cool “Fan Art” of BattleToads… Then, later after he’s almost forgotten about it, he’s in a “Hot Topic” and what does he see as a T-shirt!? And, did he get paid a commission? nope. He was, of course, doing “Fan Art” of another’s work, but he didn’t try to sell it. And if they’d used his work professionally, they’d still need to pay him money, though of course as a ‘fan’ he’d have been very reasonable and flattered.

He looked into it and while the china printing place, American design firm, etc. were both pointing fingers at each other, they’d just (likely) thought it was “Official” art because it was professional quality.

An artist, “Space Coyote” designed a tattoo for a friend and posted the design on her website. Later on the guy with the tattoo goes to Hot Topic and finds the design as a temporary tattoo as part of a Pirate Halloween costume set.

And there’s the case of another artist who saw a piece of her art slightly changed and printed on a T-shirt.

Isn’t ripping off better countries’ ideas and making cheaper crappier versions exactly what Japan was doing in the 40’s and 50’s? Then in the 70’s and 80’s they started making copies that were better, and by the 90’s all the innovation in those technologies was coming from Japan. China is still in that 50’s stage, where they make cheap crap, but I bet they catch up to making good quality copies by 2020.

I once saw a Chinese cartoon:
they used the backgrounds of Clannad, the part when Nagisa was about to “confess” to Ryou.
They also used Kotomi’s theme while they were at it.
Then, they would just put their character over it.

After that, there was some sort of space battle, and I thought I recognized some Macross themed buildings.

Really, even though I’m a Chinese myself (Hong Kong), I hate them so much. I wonder when they’re going to do something about their attitude…

That reminds me of a mascot of a Bank (iirc) in my country back when in my childhood named Along. They actually released a few volumes of comic books of that mascot character which apparently were nothing but just a complete trace-off from random chapters of Doraemon; the storyline, the settings, the positions, the poses.., all were replaced by their own characters doing the exact same thing.

Fansubs have increased knowledge of these animes to regions japan doesn’t really care about sending anime to, despite the publishers whining about how fansubs steal there pretend money to a region they never bothered to care about.

But I don’t appreciate people who just take take take and never give anything back to the creators.

Can we also get the Chinese Kanon, Clannad and Air soon, and perhaps also the Chinese K-On!?

No free speech and free expression result in these crap with no creativity at all? Or are the Chinese Mafia behind all of these crap? (they are in the showbizz, you know; maybe now they are into anime.)

In the chinese K-on Yui wakes up in the morning, runs down the street, pets a cat, and dies when she runs over a bridge created out of garbage.

Mio is sent to an internment camp for arguing with a party official, and her closest friends are all suspected of betraying the country with her, so they have their organs removed, sold off to rich businessmen, their skin removed, and are displayed in the “bodies museum” with all of the other chinese dissidents.

Ironically enough, they’re all posed together as a skinless all girl rock band.

I don’t think fan produced material can really be considered as copyright infringement, it would be the equivalent of saying that a band can’t perform a cover song. These things are not official productions and aren’t advertised as such.

stream and download anime, but we don’t use it as a commercial purpose.
if you think i’m wrong, blame those deviantart or pixiv or youtube or even nicovideo users who uses others IP to produce their own drawings or video or doujin for that matter.

If the people see they get gifts from China they’d instantly toss it back to them telling them they don’t want fake [insert anything here].
So go back to that thing you call China and rebuild that wall so it’s unbreachable so that we never see or hear from you again.

i dont know how they do it, but it appears that the whole friggin 1.3 billion nation is populated by bond villains
seriosly, if i read about such a country in fiction id say the author watched too much escaflowne and read too much tolkien
whatever they do, its just wrong in the purest sense of the word

I don’t think it should be destroyed, just needs a reform within itself. Better government, better housing, and better paying jobs. That way they don’t have to resort to being the nation with the highest piracy rate.

China must be destroyed.
For peace and love and world safety.
Remember safety always first.
And yeah China should lose some not han territory and rest should be divided.
BTW Russia Germany and USA should be divided too.
For the sake of peace and love.

However, I’m troubled by the lack of context for
“China must be destroyed”.

Should it be split into little citystates like renaissance Italy?
Or can it be left whole, if it changes its name (Han-istan?)?
Failing that, are you suggesting rendering the entire chinese landmass
totally uninhabitable?

10:39 anon, of course they should have legal copyrights of the animes. Anything invented for the most part has a copyright and or patent of sorts, even then famous people are still renowned for their work otherwise we could all claim Einsteins or Newtons theories and work was all ‘our’ (anons) idea.

Fucking naive thinking you have imo, why don’t we all just copy each other and lose totally everything that makes us actually think.

China ripped off stupid amount of things, i mean 5cm per second is a movie as well, an anime movie, but still a movie, and they have fuckall right to copy anything.

I think it has something to do with Japan’s and China’s relationship. It’s always been a bit edgy, and i don’t think Japan wants to start anything serious over it because they don’t want any confilcts. Fucking communists, think everything belongs to them. ‘Yeh we all share stuff and are a happy government, except we actually control everything and nobodies equal’.

So that’s pretty much chinese philosophy @ anon 10:39 if it’s not chained or protected its okay to be a lazy ass and steal someone else’s work ,niiiice, no wonder chinese are such a fucked up people. but that’s okay after all you are meant to build cheap crap of dubious quality not to actually think and invent.

So not only are you laboring under the painfully asinine notion that regional copyright law applies internationally, but you also ascribe “patents” to “anime concepts” in some sort of fictionalized conception of the intellectual property infrastructure as being broadly protected by “patents.”

Moreover, not only does “Japane” not hold the IP rights to these characters, but it isn’t anything in any pertinent sense.

To sum up: *Japan* has no legal recourse because it isn’t the IP holder of these characters. Furthermore, the legal owner of these concepts has no legal remedy because of the lack of any supportable framework for protecting intellectual property internationally.